(I reposted this bc some applications were missing.) I had to install some apps because of school. Btw, can you say improvements that I can make? I can’t install anything that isn’t from playstore. Edit: Duolingo is now just a PWA

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    No, its replaceable. Just delete it, somebody has to make the step. I told my friends and family they can reach me at signal, call me or just send an SMS. I don’t want to judge but it is easier than you may think.

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      But they are not listening to me. They believe whatsapp will protect them. Escpecially my sister. She is not ready to switch to a different platform like signal or session.

      When considering sms or voice calls (which here often used to communicate), those are insecure by design and unencrypted plain text communication.

      Also contacting with teachers, keeping up to date about exams, everywhere everyone first asking for whatsapp number instead mobile number. I hate it. But we have really no control over anything right ? If the messenger we choose signal, session is empty then whats the purpose of keeping it in the first place ?

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        Yes it is. But WhatsApp encryption is a joke. Whenever someone is doing a backup with WhatsApp inbuilt backupplan all messages are stored unencrypted in the google cloud by default (WhatsApp and Google have everything in clear text). You can make encrypted backups but they give you a very long key with a warning so nobody does that! When you chat with someone on WhatsApp you can’t see that. I don’t use SMS for sensitive stuff but thinking WhatsApp is secure and E2E is a joke.

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        WhatsApp can never secure our messages because it is not libre software, so we do not control it. Both are trash but at least WhatsApp uses the internet instead of directly costing money like SMS.

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          Me too feel bad when actually am in a degoogled os and successfully quit every privacy invasive platforms except youtube and whatsapp.

          Also if i only used whatsapp for chatting with 2 or 3 persons without giving it any contact details, still it considered as bad ?

          Also am living in india, and my country have no known privacy protection laws like gdpr.

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              No, actually the opposite is happening everytime. The harsh truth is most of my contacts don’t even care am chatting/interacting with them or not. Am easily replacable with hundrends of their other whatsapp users.

              But i have a happy news. I deleted whatsapp successfully. Now whoever wants to chat with me must be on telegram, signal or session messenger. And now on i have to be very careful that in no situation i install whatsapp again.

              In here not only signal, session also using protonmail, tuta instead of gmail considered as weird and everyone will qn us for that.